Put On Your Reading Glasses Because Twitter’s 280 Character Update Is Here

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Millennials’ brains are now conditioned to think, write and tweet in 140 characters or less. But now, everything has changed. Everyone’s tweet character limit is 280 and it’s making users’ brains short circuit. What will they use an extra 140 characters for? How will society un-condition itself from 140 characters to 280 characters? Will Twitter ever have a useful update?

No one ever thought Twitter’s biggest update would be doubling the amount of allotted characters. Sure maybe a character increase of 20 or 40, but another 140? That’s insane especially when users, including Kim Kardashian, are BEGGING Twitter to add an edit feature.

Reading 280 character tweets feel like you’re back in ninth grade English reading an assigned Shakespeare play. The word count is just too damn high! To protest this inane update, users some have just straight up said they refuse to use all 280 characters.

I will NEVER use 280 characters nor will I favorite or retweet a tweet with them. THIS IS MY FIGHT SONG

— chrissy teigen (@chrissyteigen) November 8, 2017

While others have been tweeting out monologues, ridiculously formatted tweets or just the good ole reliable key smash. Twitter is pure chaos right now.

https://twitter.com/YahBoyAang/status/928103753630306304

We all have 280 characters? Well, as Shakespeare wrote, “Brevity is the soul of wit. The soul of wit is what brevity is. Brevity? Soul of wit? They're the same thing. Like if you had brevity in one hand and the soul of wit in the other, you’d be hard pressed to tell them apart.”

— Stephen Colbert (@StephenAtHome) November 8, 2017

According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way that a bee should be able to fly. Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. The bee, of course, flies anyways. Because bees don't care what humans think is impossible.
Yellow, black. Yellow, black.

— Cates Holderness (@catesish) November 7, 2017

https://twitter.com/sbstryker/status/928032678980476928

https://twitter.com/ira/status/928077154914467840

*inhales deeply*

🗣️YeeeEEEEEeeeeeEEEeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeEEEEEEEeeeeEEEEEEEeeeeEEEEEEEeeeeEEEEEEEeeeeEEEEEEEeeeeEEEEEEEeeeeEEEEEEEeeeeEEEEEEEeeeeEEEEEEEeeeeEEEEEEEeeeeEEEEEEEeeeeEEEEEEeeeeEEeeeeEEeeeeEEeeeRRRRRRRRRRRRRrrrrrRRRRRRRRRRRrrrrRRRRRRRRRRRRrrrrrrRRRRRRrrrrRRRrrrrr!!!!

— VICE TV (@VICETV) November 7, 2017

https://twitter.com/BravoCoolee/status/928020104780107776

now that i have 280 characters all tweets to me must be a correctly formatted research paper. paper must include:
-12 pt times new roman
-double spaced
-works cited page
-thesis statement
-footnotes
-full bibliography
-in text citations
-MLA or APA formatting
-Submitted as .docx

— hangin out (@mineifiwildout) November 7, 2017

In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad called the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.

— Filthiest Poster Alive (@victoriaxxviii) November 7, 2017

On our very first day at Harvard, a very wise Professor quoted Aristotle: "The law is reason free from passion." Well, no offense to Aristotle, but in my three years at Harvard, I have come to find that passion is a key ingredient to the study and practice of law — and of life.

— College Candy (@CollegeCandy) November 8, 2017

SOME
Body
Once told me
The world is gonna roll me
I ain’t the sharpest tool in the shed
She was looking kind of dumb
With her finger and her thumb
In the shape
Of an “L”
On her forehead
WELL
The years start coming
And they don’t stop coming
Fed to the rules so I #280characters

— meg (@ItsMegNotMegan) November 8, 2017

https://twitter.com/MADBLACKTHOT/status/928042553546592256

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— Nicole Bansen (@NicoleBansen) November 8, 2017

https://twitter.com/ira/status/928119236236517377

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— James Poniewozik (@poniewozik) November 7, 2017

Seriously, Twitter what are you doing?